Don’t Do This At Home
Another person has died by falling into the gorge, something Cornell University is famous for. It doesn’t have to happen, though! The Police said they “saw a woman climb onto the railing of the bridge and fall into the water.” Well, the first mistake was climbing onto the railing of the bridge, a definite no no:
I’ve seen students climb up on bridge railings at the CTown Cascadilla gorge or Thurston Ave gorge, and I always wondered when one drunk sorority girl would lurch the wrong way at the wrong time, or a sudden gust of wind would push the Titanic-esque wannabe off the precipice.
Standing on the edge of the gorge is just not a good idea, unless you want to risk your life. It’s just not safe. Maybe only 1 in 1000 of the people that do it fall off, but there’s real, physical danger there. You want a thrill, go skydiving.
What Really Goes On At Parties?
NSFW, “An investigative report from the television show NEWSLINE exposing the dark truth of bro rape.”
“It’s a type of rape that’s gone overlooked for decades, and it’s risen 44% in the last year. I’m talking of course, about Bro rape. What is a Bro? A Bro is an 18 to 24 year old male who wears Birkenstock sandals, plays ultimate Frisbee…”
Was the Sun’s Student Trustee Poll Indicative?
Before the student trustee elections the CU Daily Sun did a poll Who are you voting for for student trustee? which received 1072 responses. As only 3911 students participated in the actual election, I thought it would be interesting to see how highly correlated the two sets of data is. I took my numbers from the stage 1 results:
The coefficient of correlation is 0.57, and the pattern is fairly obvious. Brian Wolfel ‘10, Julie Geng ‘08, and Peirce Stern ‘10 were the only candidates to display substantially more Cornell Sun votes than real votes. Chris Gunderson ‘09, Graham Rengert ‘09, Karthik Rammohan ‘09, Michael McDermott ‘09, and Julie Cantor ‘09 received significantly more real votes than Sun votes. But some of these numbers are low enough that we can ignore them. After removing all the minor players, we’re left with a coefficient of correlation of -0.39 and this graph:
Now there appears to be no pattern. The Sun results are just good padding egos and saying who definitely won’t win the elections.
